Best Thanksgiving Moments: Remembering Gossip Girl

I'm not gonna lie - Gossip Girl was one of the best TV series I've ever watched. I remember the first time I watched it, it wasn't exactly the first episode, I watched it accidentally when I turned on my TV and suddenly I heard One Republic's Apologize played. That's when Dan and Serena walked together outside a building and her mom, Lily, watched her from above. It was sad and sweet at the same time and I simply fell in love with GG. The narration reminded me of Sex & The City, and all of the fashion stuff in every GG episodes were no joke!
So let's take a moment to remember the thanksgiving episodes from Gossip Girl. I give you a hint: disaster. Does it ring a bell? Yes, every thanksgiving episodes of GG ended with disasters. Revealed dirty secrets, disappointments, sadness, all at once. Here's the two-most tragic thanksgiving episodes of Gossip Girl, according to me:

Blair Waldorf Must Pie (Season 1)

This was the first thanksgiving episode. I remember I expected something happy and full of joy moments, but when the episode started with drunk Serena and Nate, making love in a bar and Blair was watching them, it was unbelievable. I realized that this episode was gonna be epic. And yep, it ended with messed up facts that Lily had an affair with Rufus, it's complicated because their children love each other. Also the fact that Blair's dad wasn't coming to the thanksgiving and Blair was very upset about that, literally broke my heart.
Their style, of course Blair and Serena look like high-class high school students. Beauty and maturity were intensely pushed into their styles. Dan still looks like a Humphrey - living in Brooklyn with lumpy sweaters. Chuck with his colorful clothes (remember that famous basketball outfit of Chuck Bass?) and Nate, he's the son of one of the richest men in Upper East Side.

 

It's Really Complicated (Season 6)

From the first season I jumped to the sixth. Because I smelled that something epic would happen in this last thanksgiving episode. There was never a good thanksgiving moment in GG, and I was right. Broken-hearted Serena, Dan got punched by Nate for publishing his exposé about Serena, and Chair (Chuck and Blair) created an ally to destroy Bart Bass. Lily also got realized by Blair and apologized to Chuck for not believing him earlier. The missing part in this episode was Blair that didn't think about his dad. That's kinda sad but maybe at some point, we all need to grow up and move on to another level of our mind (but I didn't see Blair's dad on Serena & Dan's wedding so I don't quite understand why he didn't make any appearance in this last season).
From high school classy students to socialite, that describes them best. Blair and Serena have a really high class taste, of course, maybe because Blair is now the owner of Waldorf Design and Serena replaced Lily's position as the high class Van Der Woodsen. Chuck and Nate turned into the stylish businessmen and Dan turned from the ugly duckling into a famous writer - that quite influenced his style, mostly hair style.

See the style evolution of Blair and Serena here

Mind-Blowing Miss Blow

Suddenly everybody is talking about Isabella Blow again on my Twitter. I wondered what happened and then I tried to google. Again, I found so many websites and blogs talking about her.

“It’s a trip!” says @PhilipTreacy1 of the @SomersetHouse’s “Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!” exhibit. #LondonCalling http://t.co/u2FrWOQHo4
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) November 19, 2013

Yes, Philip Treacy, the most famous house for producing artistic hats, together with Alexander McQueen are doing a tribute to late Isabella Blow. The exhibition is called Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!, held at Somerset House in London. It's held from November 20, 2013 until March 4, 2014.They're also working together with The Isabella Blow Foundation and Central Saint Martins.
At first I wondered about what kind of exhibition it is. Then finally I was (or you were) right: it's hats everywhere. I thought that Alexander McQueen would participate into this tribute because she was, you know, Lee's muse. But after all, the designer himself already gone. Like every tribute, every single thing that is exhibited looks deep, sad, but brings the spirit of their late owner.

Image from Somerset House

Image from Somerset House

A famous head piece that was on the coffin of Isabella Blow.

In my life, Isabella is one of my inspirations. I tell you why. People that don't know much about fashion mock her, saying that she's just a weird person wearing weird head piece. But for me, she's much more than that. I've watched a lot of her interviews and I believe, she's one of the bravest women ever. When she was young, she worked at Vogue as Anna Wintour's assistant. As a person that had a job in Vogue, it's really cool. But then she found out that her love in fashion was more than that. Then she discovered Lee McQueen and Philip Treacy. From that moment she became an icon, wearing hats that Philip made, and being Lee's muse. Her turning point from some fashion journalist to a muse amazes me. She was brave to follow her passion and from her interviews, I know that she's just being herself. Wearing artistic things on her head and her body, walking so confidently like she wore nothing, smoking while being interviewed.. It's just mind-blowing. Years after she passed away, people still consider her as one of the biggest influential icon in fashion industry. Many artists are inspired by her, including Lady Gaga.

"Gaga and Isabella Blow look physically quite the same," said photographer Nick Knight, "so in many ways, she would be a good person to do that. …There is a lot of the spirit of Isabella Blow in what Gaga has done," he said, citing the Mother Monster's "exuberance, and love of the extreme, and that sort of quite extreme vision of a woman is something that Gaga has picked up on." 

A preview of Nick Knight's work for the tribute

Daphne Guinness said, “This exhibition is, to me, a bittersweet event. Isabella Blow made our world more vivid, trailing color with every pace she took. It is a sorrier place for her absence. When I visited her beloved clothes in a storage room in South Kensington, it seemed quite clear the collection would be of immense value to a great many people. I do believe that in choosing to exhibit them we’ve done the right thing – and that it is what she would have wanted. I am doing this in memory of a dear friend, in the hope that her legacy may continue to aid and inspire generations of designers to come”.

She's just... an icon. Rest in peace, miss Isabella Blow.

Watch SHOWstudio's fashion film: tribute to Isabella Blow here. (YouTube)

Technology Is No More Nerd, It's More Fab Now

Technology and fashion - two different things that sometimes don't work together. But when we look back, there are some designers that combined these two into a piece of art. Technology in fashion is not a new thing, a lot of forms of technology have been involved to the clothing industry. Even though not all people can wear it (only special or "weird" people like artists and models) but the occurrence of this combination keeps increasing.

Alexander McQueen was famous for this fusion. When he worked as a designer at Givenchy he held several shows that involved the use of technology. The paint-sprayer robot that moved by itself sprayed the dress that was wore by a model, changed it into a new form of a dress full of colors. When Lee had his own brand, Alexander McQueen, he also held his last show with technology involved. Models with his infamous armadillo shoes and sparkling dress, walking on the runway with two massive cameras moving along with them.

Two robots spraying paint to the dress, live on the McQueen show

Two cameras moving along with the models.

Now, as the technology keeps developing, many designers and artists try to invent another way to combine these two different things in more intimate way. Singers like Lady Gaga, has her own company to do this things called Studio XO, a branch in Haus Of Gaga that specially works for her to make innovative dresses. A bubble dress, not the old bubble dress that she wore at the SNL, is actually a dress that can produces real bubbles and it makes that dress looks so innovative. Volantis, a dress that can actually fly was also designed by her team.

Lady Gaga's bubble dress

Volantis, first ever flying dress

These two revolutionary artists are not the only one that use technology as the thing that influences fashion. A lot of different and unique dresses like neon dress, living dress, including in movie industry like Tron Legacy, Step Up 3D and another forms of dresses, wigs, and accessories have been made by using this modern phenomena. By seeing this new kind of activity that has been happening in the fashion world, it means that human has been trying to invent something new. People in the fashion industry has been trying to destroy the circle - the circle in fashion world that keeps repeating the eras that have happened before. It means in the future we can see people wearing the more innovative, unique and a lot different things for their clothes. Maybe technology and fashion were destined to be together and change the entire face of fashion industry, pushing the designers and fashion freaks to invent another trend that is more original.

A Journey To A Little Fashion Show

Without any doubt, I'm really proud of my university. Because it holds 2 fashion shows in a year and those are quiet good. Yesterday 10/15 I attended one of the shows it's called Festifrance. Actually it's not only a fashion show, it includes another shows like sexy dance, band performances, DJ performance, and Beat-box. But the fashion show itself is the main show of the event.